Posts Tagged ‘C#’
Creating Excel 2010, 2007 addin. Customizing Excel Ribbon: C#, VB.NET
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 29th, 2012
In today's article we'll concentrate on the components and tools Add-in Express for Office and .net gives us when developing COM add-ins for Excel 2007 and Excel 2010... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create Excel add-in: C# and VB.NET
Pieter van der Westhuizen | May 14th, 2012
It is also about time I write a few posts about writing Excel COM add-ins, so in today's article we'll take a look at how to create a superb world-class Excel add-in using Add-in Express for Office and .net... Read the rest of this entry →
How to create an Internet Explorer Bar for Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Pieter van der Westhuizen | April 12th, 2012
In today's post I'll show you how to write another integration to Dynamics CRM, only this time it is using Add-in Express for Internet Explorer and .net. We will write an add-on for Internet Explorer which will show the selected contact in Dynamics CRM's orders on an IE bar... Read the rest of this entry →
Create a custom Outlook view programmatically: C# sample
Pieter van der Westhuizen | April 9th, 2012
When creating Outlook add-ins I used to always use the Add-in Express Web view when I wanted to display my own data in the folder view. Until recently, when I realized that Outlook does expose a lot of properties that make it easy to display your custom data using the built-in Outlook types as well as Outlook views... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Create a new distribution list item in Outlook
Eugene Astafiev | March 29th, 2012
Sometimes Outlook users need to send their e-mails to the same recipients. The Outlook Object Model provides the DistListItem class exactly for this task. The distribution list represents a group of contacts that are related in some way... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Remove a Personal Folders file from the current Outlook profile
Eugene Astafiev | March 21st, 2012
In my previous post we discussed how to add a new personal folders store to the Outlook profile. Now I would like to reveal the opposite action – how to remove a personal folders store... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Create a new Outlook Personal Folders store and add it to the current profile
Eugene Astafiev | March 19th, 2012
Sometimes developers need to add an additional store in Outlook for archiving e-mails, making backup copies of email conversations etc. The AddStore method of the Namespace class of the Outlook Object Model provides the required functionality... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Use Restrict method to retrieve Outlook Task items
Eugene Astafiev | March 15th, 2012
Today I would like to show you how to filter task items using the Restrict method of the Items class which the Outlook Object Model provides for developers... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Use Outlook Find and FindNext methods to retrieve Task items
Eugene Astafiev | March 5th, 2012
In my previous articles I described how to use Find and FindNext methods to retrieve Outlook mail items, contact and calendar items. Now I am going to show you how to apply the Find and FindNext methods for Outlook task items... Read the rest of this entry →
How to intercept clicking an Office Ribbon control or command bar button
Andrei Smolin | February 27th, 2012
There are three ways to invoke a command of an Office application: click a built-in Ribbon button (2007-2010); click a built-in CommandBar button (Office 2000-2003 and some Office 2007 applications) and press a keyboard shortcut... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express vs. VSTO: Customizing Backstage View and context menu
Pieter van der Westhuizen | February 24th, 2012
One of the first articles I wrote for Add-in Express was about the Office 2010 Backstage View. Microsoft Office 2010 was still new and users of Office where still getting used to Microsoft's new approach to the "File" menu. The Add-in Express Backstage view component has since received a new and very impressive visual designer that makes designing the Backstage view a piece of cake
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How To: Create a new recurrent Task item in Outlook
Eugene Astafiev | February 23rd, 2012
There are two item types that can be recurrent in Outlook: appointment and task items. In one of my earlier posts described the first one. Now I am going to tell you the story about task items... Read the rest of this entry →
Excel shapes events: getting notified about user actions
Andrei Smolin | February 21st, 2012
The Excel object model doesn't have any events purposed for manipulations with shapes. In this blog I demonstrate an approach to solving this problem... Read the rest of this entry →
Add-in Express vs. VSTO: Visual designers for Office Ribbon UI customization
Pieter van der Westhuizen | February 20th, 2012
Creating a Microsoft Office add-in prototype is certainly much faster with the help of Add-in Express's visual designers. The visual designers help you to very quickly and easily build complex Office UI's as well as customize the existing MS Office UI... Read the rest of this entry →
How To: Create a new Task item in Outlook
Eugene Astafiev | February 17th, 2012
In my previous posts I have described how to create a new e-mail message, contact and appointment items. Today I am going to cover task items... Read the rest of this entry →
Using Word Dialogs programmatically: C# sample
Andrei Smolin | February 16th, 2012
This blog is about a sample add-in project (with source code) demonstrating how to use Word dialogs programmatically. With this add-in you can check if a given dialog is suitable for your task or get version-specific information about that dialog and its properties... Read the rest of this entry →